Guardian food critic Jay Rayner comparing eating crab to sex will make you think “poor Mrs Rayner”

@Thoughtcat over on Twitter has brought this extract of Jay Rayner’s food writing to our attention and it’s turned our stomach:

I dunno what sort of sex Jay Rayner has been having but I know I want no part of it pic.twitter.com/tFCji4pI0u

— Thoughtcat (@thoughtcat) August 27, 2017

That quote in full incase the screengrab is hard to read:

Eating crab, like building kitchen extensions and sex, is very messy when done properly. You have to roll up your sleeves and abandon yourself to the mucky business at hand, with hammer, crackers and pick. The white meat must be hard won, the brown meat scooped from nooks and crannies. I’ve always thought of it as being akin to that myth about eating celery: that you burn as many calories breaking the bastard down as you gain from the seafood with which you are rewarded.

Poor Mrs Raynor!

Source: Twitter/@thoughtcat